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Subject: [OM] Re: Photoshop RAW converter question
From: Bernard Frangoulis <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:02:08 +0100
>Oh, great Photoshop Gurus, I need some advice.
>
>I'm experimenting with Adobe's RAW converter and I'm really
>disappointed with the saturation levels I'm seeing from E-1
>files. With Olympus Viewer, I can get those Over-The-Top colors
>and 3D colors that the camera is famous for, but Photoshop's
>converter just seems to make the image lay there.  Sure, I can
>crank things up a bit later, but that's another step I'm not
>sure I want to take.

I don't always get good results from ACR (it depends on the picture), 
but my biggest problem is different: I find that the color is often 
not quite what I expect, particularly  the greens which are over the 
top (too saturated, and too "green" hue).

I have photographed a Gretag Macbeth color checker and tried several 
times calibrating ACR (3.1), using Thomas Fors's script. The "Green 
Sat" values have always been very high, giving even worse greens than 
the default setting of ACR.

I have also tried to calibrate manually, using Bruce Fraser's 
instructions in his latest ACR book and his article on the subject. I 
also tried other scripts, from Simon Tindemans or Rags Gardner. I got 
different values each time, but the colors were often not very nice 
either, again with too vibrant greens.

So, in the end, I have bought Capture One LE, and get what I think 
are better results than with ACR. The colors I get out of Olympus 
Viewer are good of course, but I don't like the workflow and the lack 
of control as compared to ACR or C1. SilkyPix gives good results as 
well, but the interface is confusing and overly complicated. I am on 
a Mac, so cannot try RSE.

Bernard

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